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    1 year ago

    This song does such a good job with communicating the conservaive trinity:

    • persecution complex
    • mad about things they themselves voted for
    • mad that the other is getting something, which is obviously undeserved
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      1 year ago

      In his interviews he claims he is a centrist but takes issues with teachers turning girls into boys and boys into girls.

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            It’s not exactly a lyrical masterpiece.

            Rich Men North of Richmond Lyrics

            [Verse 1]
            I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day
            Overtime hours for bullshit pay
            So I can sit out here and waste my life away
            Drag back home and drown my troubles away

            [Pre-Chorus]
            It’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to
            For people like me and people like you
            Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
            But it is, oh, it is

            [Chorus]
            Livin’ in the new world
            With an old soul
            These rich men north of Richmond
            Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
            Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
            And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do
            'Cause your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed to no end
            'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

            [Verse 2]
            I wish politicians would look out for miners
            And not just minors on an island somewhere
            Lord, we got folks in the street, ain’t got nothin’ to eat
            And the obese milkin’ welfare

            [Verse 3]
            Well, God, if you’re 5-foot-3 and you’re 300 pounds
            Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds
            Young men are puttin’ themselves six feet in the ground
            ‘Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin’ them down

            [Pre-Chorus]
            Lord, it’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to
            For people like me and people like you
            Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
            But it is, oh, it is

            [Chorus]
            Livin’ in the new world
            With an old soul
            These rich men north of Richmond
            Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
            Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
            And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do
            'Cause your dollar ain’t shit and it’s taxed to no end
            'Cause of rich men north of Richmond

            [Outro]
            I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day
            Overtime hours for bullshit pay

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              These lyrics reflect completely legitimate working class anxieties but supports the system that perpetuates them. “Taxed to no end,” the corporate tax rate has been brought down by lobbying for decades. The obese focus is on one hand legit since eating like shit is cheap, but it has blinders on about why that is, since it’s not convenient to their point.

              These parts are all completely legit, although the lyrics are pretty bad. The same things have been said by much better voices in much better ways.

              I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day

              Overtime hours for bullshit pay

              So I can sit out here and waste my life away

              Drag back home and drown my troubles away

              Young men are puttin’ themselves six feet in the ground

              ‘Cause all this damn country does is keep on kickin’ them down

              Overall it’s a great example of politics in America right now and how the working class is exploited by the right wing, as well as how liberal media, in the mainstream “dialogue,” fails to address the working class anxieties and instead focuses on the “controversy” of the song. The coverage isn’t really about the lyrics, it’s about the way people are interpreting them politically, and it all favors and perpetuates the exact same system.

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                Yeah, I totally agree with everything you said. The anxieties felt by people on the far right are real, they’ve just got a skewed perception of the cause of their problems.

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                So persecuted that a bunch of rich guys put their thumbs on the scale and ascended his music to the charts because they agreed with the message. The Rich Men North of Richmond want total control, no not the ones I agree with, the other ones.